The phrase "right hippocampus" refers to a specific part of the brain that is involved in memory and learning processes. It is located on the right side of the brain and plays a crucial role in storing and retrieving information. Full definition
Other regions (the right hippocampus and the posterior cingulate cortex) become active when we have emotional experiences, helping to retrieve emotional memories. (discovermagazine.com)
Healthy animals make a beeline for the fish after just 1 or 2 days, but sea lions with damage to their right hippocampus tended not to improve, Cook and his colleagues report today online in Science and at the 21st Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals in San Francisco, California. (sciencemag.org)
«It's [damage to] the right hippocampus that's driving the behavioral deficit,» he says. (sciencemag.org)